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I tested ML1.2 pre4b on such a machine:
Motherboard: P4E/P4ES
CPU: celeron 2.0G
video card: TNT2
mem: 256 DDR
HD: HD1, 40G maxtor
HD2, 20G WD
HD1 is running W2K. HD2 is running linux.
I partitioned HD2 into three parts: / (ext3), swap, and a working directory /work (ext2). All my personel stuff is in /work, so I can keep these stuff intact when I make a fresh installation.
I downloaded ML1.2 pre4b from Jackey's ftp.
In installation process, / and swap are formatted, but /work partition is left unchanged.
The installation looks fine, no any problems except that the installation is much slower than ML1.1. GRUB is installed into MBR.
But when I boot up the machine when the installation is finised, the system stops at "GRUB". I can not event bootup the machine by floppy disk! (In BIOS setting, floppy is the first boot device)
I use KNOPPIX boot up the computer, checked the grub.conf, it looks fine (as folllowing):
default=1
timeout=20
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splashxpm.gz
title win 2000
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title MagicLinux
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1 ro root=/dev/hdb1 vga=791, splash=silent
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.img
What is even worse, all of my stuff in directory /work, which is a independent partition and was NOT selected to be formatted, is gone! The whole directory is empty under KNOPPIX. I don't know if the installation erroneously formatted the partition /work or KNOPPIX can not display the contents (but I can view the files in HD1 which is running windows). |
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